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We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Theodore Roosevelt, Address at the opening of the gubernatorial campaign, New York City, October 5, 189826th president of US (1858 - 1919)